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The most effective way for a French Premier to stay in office is to avoid hard decisions and, if possible, even forthright expressions of opinion.…

As the new head coach of CF Montreal, Laurent Courtois is stepping into the biggest coaching job he's ever had — putting his philosophy to the test like never before.

PARIS, March 22, 1939 (UP) - Premier Daladier was understood today to be actively seeking a peaceful settlement of Italian demands in the Mediterranean.

To understand the situation in Ukraine today, it is important to understand Ukraine's history, Russia's ambitions and the role of the West in facilitating Putin's expansionist quest for power.

For more than a decade, American presidents stood by while Russian strongman Vladimir Putin had his way with Ukraine.

It is impossible to understand what is happening in Ukraine today without some knowledge of its past

Marlin Clark considers how the incursion of Russian armored troops into eastern Ukraine may affect grain prices.

French diplomats are worried about the future that seems in store for them under the forthcoming senior civil service reform. Some will accuse them of corporatism. Yet the critical articles that have appeared in various journals contain sincere misgivings about the consequences of the coming standardisation of their savoir faire and voice the fear of a loss of French influence in the fast-changing international arena. The idea of reforming the senior civil service goes way back and rears (...)

Written in 1938 while he was still a Trotskyist, CLR James writes about the plan to create a Jewish colony in Kenya. This was not a brand new idea in relation to the rise of Nazism, but had been supported by Theodor Herzl and Joseph Chamberlain (known as the Uganda Scheme).